Books+ Search Results
The Bible in/and popular culture : a creative encounter
Title
The Bible in/and popular culture : a creative encounter / edited by Philip Culbertson and Elaine M. Wainwright.
ISBN
9781589834934
1589834933
9781589834941
1589834941
Published
Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2010.
Physical Description
vii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
In popular culture, the Bible is generally associated with films: The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Montreal, and many others. Less attention has been given to the relationship between the Bible and other popular media such as hip-hop, reggae, rock, and country and western music; popular and graphic novels; animated television series; and apocalyptic fantasy. This collection of essays explores a range of media and the way the Bible features in them, applying various hermeneutical approaches, engaging with critical theory, and providing conceptual resources and examples of how the Bible reads popular culture and how popular culture reads the Bible. This useful resource will be of interest for both biblical and cultural studies.
Variant and related titles
Bible in popular culture
Bible and popular culture
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2019
Series
Semeia studies / Society of Biblical Literature ; 65
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Some novel remarks about popular culture and religion : Salman Rushdie and the adaptation of sacred texts / Michael J. Gilmour
Red dirt God : divine silence and the search for transcendent beauty in the music of Emmylou Harris / Mark McEntire
"Here, there, and everywhere" : images of Jesus in American popular culture / Dan W. Clanton Jr.
'Tis a pity she's (still) a whore : popular music's ambivalent resistance to the reclamation of Mary Magdalene / Philip Culbertson
Spittin', cursin', and outin' : hip-hop apocalypse in the imperial necropolis / Jim Perkinson
The Bible and reggae : liberation or subjugation? / Noel Leo Erskine
"Help me make it through the night" : narrating class and country music in the theology of Paul / Tex Sample
Jesus of the moon : Nick Cave's Christology / Roland Boer
Prophetic voices in graphic novels : the "comic and tragic vision" of apocalyptic rhetoric in Kingdom come and Watchmen / Terry Ray Clark
Reading "pop-wise" : the very fine art of "making do" when reading the Bible in bro'Town / Steve Taylor
Daemons and angels : the end of the world according to Philip Pullman / Tina Pippin
Close encounters : the Bible as pre-text in popular culture / Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, and Caroline Vander Stichele
Pop scripture : creating small spaces for social change / Erin Runions.
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
